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Introduction We have seen in the previous article Dynamically Securing Method Execution with Spring Security how it is possible to exploit the nature of Spring Security ACL module to dinamically secure methods access. Here we detail this solution with a working … Continue reading →

Introduction When implementing some sort of web application’s plugin architecture in which the layout is based on the Tiles framework (https://tiles.apache.org/) there could be the need to reload new tiles definitions on the fly. How to load Tiles definitions programmatically … Continue reading →

Introduction Resource bundles are objects that are characterized by a specific ‘Local’, i.e. are specific to particular geographical areas in terms of language, date format and other standards. Usually they are represented by simple properties files in the classpath with … Continue reading →

Introduction Spring can use its own MVC or integrate other MVC frameworks. It can for instance integrate with Struts2 by a specific plugin. The plugin overrides the Struts Object Factory providing a way to configure struts actions as beans in … Continue reading →

Introduction When we implement a java servlet web application we face the problem of choosing in which scope to put information in, depending on the needs. In the normal scenarios we have to cope essentially with Context (i.e. ServletContext), Session … Continue reading →

Introduction Dealing with http web frameworks, one day or the other one has to cope requirements that go beyond the standard features offered by the chosen platform. A common issue would be to change the request submitted by the client … Continue reading →

Introduction In the previous post How to modify the servlet request we explained how to change the servlet request on the fly, using the servlet filter mechanism and the class HttpServletResponseWrapper. In the following paragraphs we are going to show how … Continue reading →

Preface Spring Security provides a robust support for securing Spring based applications but it fails in some way when it comes to design dynamically configurable security, especially regarding dynamic configurability of java methods access. How we can overcome these limitations? … Continue reading →